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RHESSI measurements relevant to the fundamental processes of energy release and particle acceleration in flares are summarized. RHESSI's precise measurements of hard X-ray continuum spectra enable model-independent deconvolution to obtain…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-11 R. P. Lin

Shock accelerated electrons are found in many astrophysical environments, and the mechanisms by which they are accelerated to high energies are still not completely clear. For relatively high Mach numbers, the shock is supercritical, and…

Space Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 D. Trotta , D. Burgess

Energetic electrons accelerated at coronal reconnection sites during solar flares precipitate into the lower solar atmosphere, generating nonthermal emissions and regulating energy deposition. However, how their transport and precipitation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-07 Feiyu Yu , Xiangliang Kong , Ze Zhong , Zhentong Li , Zelong Jiang , Yingli Cui , Zhao Wu , Yao Chen , Gang Li

We carried out detailed analysis of X-ray and radio observations of a simple flare loop that occurred on 12th August 2002, with the impulsive hard X-ray (HXR) light curves dominated by a single pulse. The emission spectra of the early…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 I. N. Sharykin , S. Liu , L. Fletcher

Sunquakes are enhanced seismic waves excited in some energetic solar flares. Up to now, their origin has still been controversial. In this Letter, we select and study 20 strong flares in Solar Cycle 24, whose impulse phase is fully captured…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-01 H. Wu , Y. Dai , M. D. Ding

In a solar flare, a large fraction of the magnetic energy released is converted rapidly to the kinetic energy of non-thermal particles and bulk plasma motion. This will likely result in non-equilibrium particle distributions and turbulent…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-15 Natasha L. S. Jeffrey , Lyndsay Fletcher , Nicolas Labrosse

The new results of the evolution of the synchrotron peak for Mrk 421 are mostly likely related to the particle acceleration process. In order to account for the above results, we present a model of blazar variability during the flare in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Jiancheng Wang , Jirong Mao

The first self-consistent simulations of electron acceleration during magnetic reconnection in a macroscale system are presented. Consistent with solar flare observations the spectra of energetic electrons take the form of power-laws that…

We report the detection of emission from a non-thermal electron distribution in a small solar microflare (GOES class A5.7) observed by the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), with supporting observation by the Reuven Ramaty High…

The recent discovery of PeV electrons from the Crab nebula, produced on rapid time scales of one day or less with a sharply peaked gamma-ray spectrum without hard X-rays, challenges traditional models of diffusive shock acceleration…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Peter Sturrock , Markus J. Aschwanden

Observations with {\em RHESSI} have enabled the detailed study of the structure of dense hard X-ray coronal sources in solar flares. The variation of source extent with electron energy has been discussed in the context of streaming of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Natasha L. S. Jeffrey , Eduard P. Kontar , Nicolas H. Bian , A. Gordon Emslie

Low Mach number, high beta fast mode shocks can occur in the magnetic reconnection outflows of solar flares. These shocks, which occur above flare loop tops, may provide the electron energization responsible for some of the observed hard…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-01 Jaehong Park , Chuang Ren , Jared C. Workman , Eric G. Blackman

The Sun offers a convenient nearby laboratory to study the physical processes of particle acceleration and impulsive energy release in magnetized plasmas that occur throughout the universe, from planetary magnetospheres to black hole…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-13 Amir Caspi

We present an ordinary case in the momentum diffusion equation for the electron spectrum evolution and investigate the energy spectra and time dependent properties of flare in Mrk 421 in the frame of a time-dependent one-zone synchrotron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-02 Y. G. Zheng , S. J. Kang , J. Li

We study the electron energy spectra of two powerful solar flares SOL2003-10-28T 11:06:16 (GOES class X17.2) and SOL2002-07-23T00:18:16 (X4.8) on the basis of HXR and gamma-ray spectra obtained from RHESSI data. Electron-electron (e-e)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-16 I. D. Oparin , Yu. E. Charikov , E. P. Ovchinnikova , A. N. Shabalin

We investigate the type III radio bursts and X-ray signatures of accelerated electrons in a well observed solar flare in order to find the spatial properties of the acceleration region. Combining simultaneous RHESSI hard X-ray flare data…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 H. A. S. Reid , N. Vilmer , E. P. Kontar

We investigate accelerated electron energy spectra for different sources in a large flare using simultaneous observations obtained with two instruments, the Nobeyama Radio Heliograph (NoRH) at 17 and 34 GHz, and the Reuven Ramaty High…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. R. Kundu , V. V. Grechnev , S. M. White , E. J. Schmahl , N. S. Meshalkina , L. K. Kashapova

The {\gamma}-ray flares from the Crab nebula observed by AGILE and Fermi-LAT reaching GeV energies and lasting several days challenge the standard models for particle acceleration in pulsar wind nebulae, because the radiating electrons have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-21 John J Kroon , Peter A Becker , Justin Finke , Charles Dermer

We present the study of SOL2015-03-15 M1.2 flare, revealing acceleration of electrons and plasma heating in the sheared twisted magnetic structure in the polarity inversion line (PIL). The scope is to make the analysis of nonthermal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-19 I. N. Sharykin , I. V. Zimovets , I. I. Myshyakov , N. S. Meshalkina

Finite thermal velocity modifications to electron slowing-down rates may be important for the deduction of solar flare total electron energy. Here we treat both slowing-down and velocity diffusion of electrons in the corona at flare…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ross K. Galloway , Alexander L. MacKinnon , Eduard P. Kontar , Per Helander